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Harvey Randall

After Bethesda kicked it off Doom's mod browser for 'real world politics', Thatcher's Techbase creators engage in masterful malicious compliance with a censored re-release

A picture of a Doom mod wherein several posters have been scrubbed free of political influence.

Bethesda, on the face of it, seems really keen to give off the impression that it's all about modders using its games to express themselves. Unless, of course, you make a mod that consigns the former, late prime minister Margaret Thatcher to "The Tenth Circle of Hell: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." In which case, it's to the dungeon with thee. .

After being served an "educational" notice, the creators of a Doom mod by the name of Thatcher's Techbase had their .wav stricken from the record of Doom + Doom 2, a bundle that introduces cross-platform, in-game mod support.

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